Johnatone Posted October 18, 2004 Recently, I began installing all the necessary componets for Doom onto our new computer. After some thought, I justified myself by only having Doom on the computer, and not installing any other game (which seems to satisfy my dad, as a few hundred megabytes is pitiful compared to the large amount of space other games take up). However, I originally configured my files such as this: Shared Documents: John's Folder: Games: Doom It was nice and all until I started to download multiple source ports and editors. The different programs conflicted with each other, not to mention caused a clutter of files. I've come up with a solution to the issue, but lack the necessary knowledge to make it work. My current setup is as follows: Shared Documents -----John's Folder --------Games -----------Doom --------------Doom Builder --------------IWads --------------PWads -----------------Skulltag -----------------ZDoom --------------Skulltag --------------ZDoom The problem lies in running the IWads through Skulltag and ZDoom without placing them in the same folder and creating multiple copies. Is there a way to edit certain perameters of the sourceports so that they read from the IWad Folder? (And/Or is Google my master?) Thanks (in advance) for the advice (if any). Added: Have any programs been created that allow you to access and execute your Doom files in one convienient(s/p) program? It was one of my goals until I gave up on learning computer programming. 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkman 4 Posted October 19, 2004 .bat files are MUCH better than Drag-and-drop. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted October 20, 2004 If I'm not mistaken the newer versions of ZDoom and it's derivatives allow you to pinpoint the IWADs in the INI file. There're a few frontends out there, such as this one. 0 Share this post Link to post
Johnatone Posted October 21, 2004 Yes, I saw that. Indeed, this was somewhat of a n00b-ish question. I'll admit even after the last four or five years I'm still learning a lot of the basics. Still, for those like me it's somewhat relevant, so I'll just explain it here and if anybody who doesn't know things like this has a question, it's here: Open up the config file, in my case, ZDoom-Owner, with Notepad and edit the space after "Path=" with the director to where your IWads are. Remember to take out the period. [IWADSearch.Directories] Path=. Folder\Games\Doom\IWads Path=$DOOMWADDIR Path=$HOME Path=$PROGDIR and Thanks myk. 0 Share this post Link to post